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theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Yes I do agree with you that having a tool that gives rocket fuel to a fraud engine should probably be regulated in some fashion.

Tiered licensing, mandatory safety training, and weapon classification by law enforcement works really well for Canada’s gun regime, for example.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Probably. Something like that is what I meant by “social consequences”. Perhaps there should be civil or criminal ones for more egregious cases.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
I am not against regulation.

Quite the opposite actually.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
You're projecting.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
If you were to wager a guess, what do you think my views on gun rights are?
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
If it was a well understood property of calculators that they gave incorrect answers randomly then you need to adjust the way you use the tool accordingly.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Yes, LLMs didnt create the problem they just accelerated it to a speed that beggars belief.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
I Would love to know what tools you are using.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
If a carpenter builds a crappy shelf “because” his power tools are not calibrated correctly - that’s a crappy carpenter, not a crappy tool.

If a scientist uses an LLM to write a paper with fabricated citations - that’s a crappy scientist.

AI is not the problem, laziness and negligence is. There needs to be serious social consequences to this kind of thing, otherwise we are tacitly endorsing it.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Poodr is one of the best programming books ever written. Even if you don’t program in Ruby you should read it anyway (and pick up a bit of Ruby just for fun) because there are lots of great concepts to internalize that are useful in almost all programming languages.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
I had the pleasure of Sandi Metz coming to a company I worked for and going us a “boot camp” of sorts for all of the engineering principles she espouses and it had a profound impact on how I view software development. Whatever the company paid for her to come - it was worth every penny.

“Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction”
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Congrats you turned Slack into (an even worse version of) Jira.

This got me thinking though. Instead of turning your chat into a ticketing system, has anyone ever turned the ticketing system into a chat?

Like instead of “comments” on a ticket, you get a live chat channel (that can be reviewed later as “comments” for historical data).

Most companies I’ve worked for will setup channels on slack in a similar fashion for projects and initiatives but these are not really ergonomic for someone that prefers to “live” in the ticketing system for work management. And context gets lost the older things get.

You could pair this with a general channel for unfocused chitchat, but all relevant work would be discussed under the work item itself. Perhaps a “slack-like” view where you can see all your watched work items at once in “channels”.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Notwithstanding that most people using Cloudflare aren't even benefiting from what it actually provides. They just use it...because reasons.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Not to be confused with Holy C. Was searching desperately to see if it was somehow inspired by it somehow but couldn't find anything.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
This looks exactly like Zen...?
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
This is total amateur shit. Completely unacceptable for something as critical as Cloudflare.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Django is awesome. I just prefer Rails because I prefer Ruby as a language. If you like Python then Django will get you very far.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
There are games I have that don't run on even Windows 10 but work flawlessly in Wine/Proton.

The amazing work the Wine team and Valve have done can't be understated.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
No. I refuse to just sit back and accept being abused by the elite just because "well, that's just the way it is", "that's human nature". Holy war is also human nature. Revolution is human nature.
theoldgreybeard
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
Maybe I have just been lucky, but I have not had the displeasure of working with people either tha incompetent or willfully ignorant yet.